Best Country

[Synaxy]

Which country is the closest one to the ideas free market, sound money and liberty that follows Ron Paul's platform?

 

[Jeremy]

The Republic of New Hampshire.

 

[Kotin]

Probably Switzerland..

 

[bojo68]

Hong Kong has gotten good reviews

 

[NolanLawson]

Estonia, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, and the Netherlands are all good choices. Look up their policies and see which ones fit you best. (Like social freedom but don't mind too little economic freedom? Choose the Netherlands. Like economic freedom better? Choose Hong Kong.) Also, keep in mind that Canada has VERY different laws in each province, so you might find one that's right for you (Alberta maybe?) even if the others don't fit your fancy.

Switzerland has pretty high taxes as far as I can remember, but they are badass enough to put a big circular hole in the middle of the European Union. Also, it seems that most of the benefit of the privacy of Swiss bank accounts are only available to non-Swiss citizens who bank there, so you may be better off living somewhere else but keeping your money in Switzerland.

All of this advice is pretty half-assed, I know, because there ISN'T a libertarian country anywhere in the world. To go to a real libertarian country, you'd have to hop in a time machine and go back to 19th-century America.

You might also want to look at the following indexes which rank countries:

Economic Freedom Index
http://www.heritage.org/Index/

Freedom House Index
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2008

State of World Liberty Index
http://www.stateofworldliberty.org/

 

[socialize_me]

Liechtenstein. I believe the taxes there are zero or negligible as it is sometimes referred to as a "tax haven". Zero income tax maybe a lil bit of an excise tax here and there, but it's such a small country that taxation isn't necessary.

In Switzerland, the Government there can take your tax money and actually subsidize Churches (yup!). Switzerland is by far a great choice and a hell of an improvement over the United States, but a big difference where we have more freedom here than there would be on that one issue. If you think having your tax money go to religion, then, well, don't move there. You do get to have automatic machine guns though and turn your house into an armory. I'll take that tradeoff.

 

[james1906]

Some of the Caribbean backwaters come to mind.

 

[Elwar]

Sealand

 

[cyberrate]

Estonia

President of Estonia is installed by US government and is one of "good friends" of Bush.
So no, not Estonia.

 

[ForLiberty-RonPaul]

Which country is the closest one to the ideas free market, sound money and liberty that follows Ron Paul's platform?

is this a new theme for December? tykes be throwin' up "what is the best country" threadz.

 

[legion]

Georgia, Chechnya, Israel, maybe Poland?

 

[jsteilKS]

The place your looking for is the island nation of Nevis/St. Kitts.

 

[risk_reward]

If your looking for freedom in government. You are looking in the wrong places.

 

[Imperial]

Georgia, Chechnya, Israel, maybe Poland?

Lawls

Switzerland lost me with the recent minaret ban...

Maybe Costa Rica if the Libertarian (BIG L) wins the presidential election.

 

[szczebrzeszyn]

Georgia, Chechnya, Israel, maybe Poland?

Not funny